Grenada: the thieves fall out By Frank Higgins
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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people other than Margaret Thatcher. It has shaken America's European allies and divided Caribbean critics of the invasion, Trinidad and Guyana, from the other Caribbean states.
Most of America's European capitalist allies are alarmed that American backwoods politics should be given expression on the stage of world politics.
The invasion has to be understood on two levels.
On the level of the global competition of the two power blocs, the Reagan administration did fear that Grenada would be bolted and bonded to Cuba, which is itself dependent on the USSR.
They reacted by cutting off aid and by military threats - thus in fact pushing Grenada in the direction of links with Cuba.
Everything the US did must have helped what we now know as the anti-Bishop faction of the New Jewel movement.
While the Reagan administration was piling on the pressure that probably helped split the New Jewel movement, the European capitalists were trying to keep Grenada on a middle-of-theroad development.
They tried to tie down Grenada with aid and even investment in the Point Saline airport which Continued back page
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